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KATARXIS N°2

Res Publica

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Reconstruction of Luxembourg, European Parliament (1978)
 
by Léon Krier
 
 

"In the beginning Men looked out for Settlements in some secure Country; and having found a convenient Spot suitable to their Occasions, they there made themselves a Habitation so contrived, that private and publick Matters might not be confounded in the same Place."
 
Alberti
 
"De Res Aedificatori" 

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Naxos Garden Seafront, Sicily
 
(Photo by Lucien Steil)

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Cathedral Square in Milano
 
(Photo by Lucien Steil)

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Pisa, Borgo Stretto
 
(Photo from Joel Crawford's Archives)

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Place des Vosges, Paris
 
(Photo by Mary Ann Sullivan)

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Public Space in Bologna
 
(Photo by Lucien Steil)

"If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only. It must transcend the life-span of mortal men; without this transcendance into a potential earthly immortality no politics, no common world and no public realm is possible."
 
Hannah Arendt
 
"The Human Condition"

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La Plaza del Mercado de San Juan, Puerto-Rico
 
Panting by Luis Germán Cajiga
 
(Fundación Luis A. Ferré)

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Public Loggia in Public Square (1977)
 
(by Rita Wolff)

Projects by Léon Krier

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Blundell Corner District, Kingston Upon Hill (1977)
 
by Léon Krier

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Teerhof  and Altstadt, Bremen, Germany (1980)
 
"Weser Promenade"
 
by Léon Krier

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Piazza Sedile, Filadelfia (1983)
 
Painting by Rita Wolff

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Reconstruction of the Piazza Sedile, Filadelfia, Calabria (1983)
 
by Léon Krier

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Panoramic View from the Tegeler Lake
 
by Léon Krier

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Master Plan for the New Hafenviertel, Berlin-Tegel (1980-1983)
 
by Léon Krier (Assistant: Francisco Sanin)
 
 

"If we speak of public space, we speak of of its quality, of its type, of its measurements, of its proportions. If order and measure are proper to every divine creation, it must therefore also be true fo every human creation. Without measure and without form, terrestrial things cannot exist; they exist only as sickness, disorder, uproar."
 
 
Léon Krier
 
"The Size of a City"
 
Léon Krier: Houses, Palaces, Cities (A.D. Profile (1984) Guest-Editor: Demetri Porphyrios)

Léon Krier Website